It might look glamorous from the outside (though it depends what you’re watching, we’ve all seen clips that are anything but) but porn performer Samantha Bentley is lifting the lid on the true reality of working as an adult film star.

Just like any other job, porn has its up and it’s downs and it’s not all mutual orgasms and lingerie.

As Samantha explains, ‘porn is f**king hard, and I don’t think us girls get enough credit for what we do…’

There are a number of particular problems she highlights:

That mid 20s pornstar anxiety of when you will finally be cast as a MILF.

When you have to shoot girl/girl with a chick who isn’t into girls and looks at your pussy like it’s the most disgusting thing she’s ever seen and won’t kiss you back, and you had such high hopes for the scene and visions of AVN nominations but now it’s all gone to sh*t.

Directors with no soul who don’t care how tired, cold or hungry you are after 18 hours on set shooting just the comedy, we must now shoot a double anal scene and it better be f***ing amazing!

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When the male talent has every single excuse under the sun for why he can’t get hard and it’s been four hours and you are trying as hard as you can to blow his head up with your mind.

When you’re on your period and you know you’re working with a dude with a monster c*ck and dreading trying to get your sponge out of there after the scene.

In the words of a different Samantha, Samantha Jones (she of Sex and the City fame) ‘Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses.

‘Easy? Honey, they don’t call it a job for nothing.’

You can read Samantha’s full list of porn star problems over at Filthy.